CPA

{{wiktionary|CPA}} '''CPA''' may refer to: {{TOC right}}

== Organizations == ===Politics and government=== * Christian Peoples Alliance, a political party in the UK * Coalition Provisional Authority, a transitional government of Iraq 2003–04 * Coalition for a Prosperous America, a US manufacturing industry lobbying group * 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 * Catholic Patriotic Association, a Catholic organization in China * 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) ({{Langx|es|Cooperativa de Producción Agropecuaria|label=none}}), a type of agricultural cooperative in Cuba * Craft Potters Association, in the UK

==Project management and cost analysis== * Cost per action, an online advertising measurement and pricing model * Cost per activity, an internet marketing cost policy * Critical path analysis, an algorithm for scheduling a set of project activities * Customer profitability analysis

==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 * ''N''⁶-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

==Sports== * Canadian Pickleball Association, a pro sports tour * Climate Pledge Arena, a multi-purpose indoor arena in Seattle, Washington

==Other uses== * Cathay Pacific, ICAO airline code CPA * Centre for the Performing Arts, Adelaide, a former college in Adelaide, South Australia * Certified Public Assassins, a team featured on ''Extreme Dodgeball'' * Classification of Products by Activity, a European standard classification of goods and services * {{lang|es|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

==See also== *PAC (disambiguation)

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