Learn C++ in 10 minutes. While browsing the shelves at Borders I saw this amazing book that promises to teach you C++ in 10 minutes. That's an improvement over 21 days, a previously held record for teaching C++ by the book, and a very sad comment about my intellectual abilities (took me years). Peter Norvig's excellent essay Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years is the best possible commentary.     

A quote from Accounting for Dummies, page 67:

Be aware that a business may be tempted to deliberately overstate or understate its profit. When a business overstates its profit in its income statement, some amount of its sales revenue has been recorded too soon and/or some amount of its expenses has not yet been recorded (but will be later). Overstating profit is a dangerous game to play because it deceives investors and other interested parties into thinking that the business is doing better than it really is.

Looks like corporate America didn't pay attention to "Accounting for Dummies" recently.