Finance

Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean
$24.95
...this is the book to read. No highly technical language to spook the reader. It explains what financial accounting is all about, from the perspective of an interested user of financial statements. It doesn't get overly bogged down in the technical aspects of HOW to prepare financial records and statements. Instead, it alerts the user to all of the various estimates that are required in order to produce accrual basis financial reports. And it is that component - the estimates - that can give rise to manipulation of a firm's reported financial position. The book provides a solid background to accounting, sufficient to give readers the necessary knowledge to ask intelligent questions about financial reports, rather than naively accept reported results as "the gospel according to GAAP."

Finance for Non-Financial Managers (Briefcase Books Series)
$16.95
This is a good overview of finance from what I can tell. I have no financial background, and Siciliano makes a good effort to explain things in layman's terms while keeping the meanings clear.

The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course In Finance for Non-Financial Managers
$19.95
The best of this book is how accounting and management are described. Very practical and useful.

The author send you the certificate as promised.

Finance for Managers (Harvard Business Essentials)
$19.95
The book contains a number of good articles, introducing some important, basic accounting and finance concepts for non-financial managers. The chapters on Financing Operations and Growth, Budgeting, Practical Tools for Management Decisions and Valuation Concepts were the most informative and relevant. Others, like Taxation and The Time Value of MOney were too simplistic. An OK book if you have limited time to devote to the subject, but it really won't do much more than introduce you to some useful vocabulary, so you won't feel completely intimidated when dealing with your finance staff.