CPA explained

CPA may refer to:

Organizations

Political parties and governmental organizations

• Christian Peoples Alliance, a political party in the UK
• Coalition Provisional Authority, a transitional government of Iraq 2003–04
• Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
• Communist Party of America, forerunner of Communist Party USA
• Communist Party of Arakan, in Burma
• Communist Party of Australia, 1920–1991
  • Communist Party of Australia (1971)
• Comprehensive Peace Accord, a 2006 agreement in Nepal
• Comprehensive Peace Agreement, a 2005 agreement in Sudan
• Comprehensive Performance Assessment, a UK Audit Commission assessment
• Comprehensive Plan of Action, a 1989 plan to stop the influx of Indochinese boat people
• Congress Party Alliance, a political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan)
• Council of Presidential Advisers, in Singapore
• Cyprus Ports Authority

Other organizations

• CPA Australia, a professional accounting body
• CPA Canada, a professional accounting body
• Canadian Payments Association
• Canadian Payroll Association
• Canadian Police Association
• Canadian Poolplayers Association
• Canadian Psychological Association
• Centre de perfectionnement aux affaires
• Chinese Progressive Association (Boston), in the US
• College Park Academy, in Riverdale Park, Maryland, US
• Commission on Preservation and Access, now Council on Library and Information Resources, in the US
• Consumer Protection Association, in Myanmar
• CPA (agriculture), a type of agricultural cooperative in Cuba
• Craft Potters Association, in the UK
• Catholic Patriotic Association, a Catholic organization in China
• Cyclistes Professionnels Associés, at Maison du Sport International in Lausanne, Switzerland

Project management and cost analysis

• Cost per action, an online advertising measurement and pricing model
• Cost per activity, an internat marketing cost policy
• Critical path analysis, an algorithm for scheduling a set of project activities

Qualifications

• Chartered Patent Attorney, in the UK
• Certified Practising Accountant, in Australia
• Chartered Professional Accountant, in Canada
• Certified Public Accountant, in the US

Science and technology

Medicine and health care

• Care Programme Approach, a British system of delivering community mental health services
• Cerebellopontine angle, in the brain
• Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis, a long-term fungal infection
• Collaborative practice agreement, a legal document between pharmacists and physicians in the US
• N⁶-Cyclopentyladenosine, a drug
• Cyproterone acetate, a medication

Information technology

• Chosen-plaintext attack, an attack model for cryptanalysis
• Co-citation Proximity Analysis, a document similarity measure
• Collaboration Protocol Agreement, a component of the ebXML standards
• Commercial Product Assurance, a form of information security validation

Other uses in science and technology

• Chirped pulse amplification, a technique for amplifying an ultrashort laser pulse
• Closest point of approach, measured by marine radar
• Coherent perfect absorber, a device which absorbs coherent light
• Coherent potential approximation, a method in physics of finding Green's function
• Chiral phosphoric acid, esters of phosphoric acid
• Cyclopropane fatty acid, a subgroup of fatty acids
• CPA superfamily, of transport proteins
• Connector Position Assurance, a feature of industrial connector housings

Other uses

• Cathay Pacific, ICAO airline code CPA
• Certified Public Assassins, a team featured on Extreme Dodgeball
• Classification of Products by Activity, a European standard classification of goods and services
• Climate Pledge Arena, a multi-purpose indoor arena in Seattle, Washington
• Spanish; Castilian: Código Postal Argentino, postal codes in Argentina
  • Community Postal Agent, of Australia Post Community Preservation Act, a state law in Massachusetts, US
• Continuous partial attention, a term coined by Linda Stone in 1998 to describe a kind of multitasking
• Continuous payment authority, a type of regular automatic payment