I may regret this.
Let's imagine a couple of skits on Saturday Night Live, illustrating the difference between Publicly traded and Privately owned companies.
Skit One:
Random Publicly Traded company reporting: "Everything we say is a "forward Looking Statement"".
Accountability: 0 Inscrutability: 1
Skit Two:
Random Privately owned company (let's say, for example, owned by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi) reporting: "Everything we say is a forward looking..."
E of AD: Whoa! F%$k that. WHERE are we, and Where are we going. And we want the answers NOW!
Accountability: 1 Inscrutability: 0
GLAL Somewhere Over the Rainbow