CPA (disambiguation)

CPA is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below:

General

*Certified Public Accountants - qualified accountant professionals in the United States and many other countries.
*Certified Practising Accountants - a member of the Australian Accounting body CPA Australia, who are also professional Accountants
*Chartered Patent Agents - In the United Kingdom, Chartered Patent Attorneys
*Critical Path Analysis which is more generally known as Critical Path Method, a operations research concept.
*The Certified Public Assassins, a team featured on Extreme Dodgeball
*Continuous Payment Authority - a method of taking regular payments from a credit card for a subscription etc.

Politics and government

*the Comprehensive Performance Assessment, an assessment carried out in the UK by the Audit Commission to look at the performance of councils and public services provided to local people.
*the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which was signed in January 9, 2005 to end the civil war in Sudan.
*the Coalition Provisional Authority which oversaw the American and British led multinational occupation of Iraq.
*the Communist Party of Australia which was founded in Sydney on 30 October 1920 by a group of socialists inspired by reports of the Russian Revolution.
*the Christian Peoples Alliance Party, a small British party based on Christian Democracy and the Mayflower Declaration.
*the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, an organisation of parliamentarians from Commonwealth countries.
*Comprehensive Plan of Action program, adopted in June, 1989 at a conference in Geneva held to stop the continuing influx of Indochinese boat people.
*Classification of Products by Activity is a European Union classification system of products for the national income and product accounts.
*Citizen's Police Academy

Organizations

*the Canadian Payments Association
*the Canadian Payroll Association
*the Canadian Philosophical Association
*the Canadian Police Association
*the Canadian Psychological Association
*the Centre for Policy on Ageing

Science and technology (not organizations)

Physics

*Coherent Potential Approximation
*chirped pulse amplification (laser)

Computing

*Control Panel Applet - a small program or applet which is invoked by or from a computer control panel
*Converged Packet Access
*Cell Processor Architecture
*Cost Per Action - internet advertisement
*Collaboration Protocol Agreement - a component of the ebXML standards
*Content Provider Access - a set of services that gives content providers access to the SMSC-based infrastructure of some telecommunication networks

Other

*Cyproterone Acetate - an antiandrogen drug
*Chosen plaintext attack is any form of cryptanalysis which presumes that the attacker has the capability to choose arbitrary plaintexts to be encrypted and obtain the corresponding ciphertexts.
*Closest Point of Approach in radar navigation, the point at which two approaching vessels are expected to pass based on extrapolation of speed and course.

Other

*Continuous Partial Attention
*Care Programme Approach - a method of delivering care in the community to those with mental illness
*Agricultural Production Cooperative - a type of agricultural cooperative in Cuba
* The ICAO airline designator for Cathay Pacific Airways