CPA

CPA may refer to:

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) (Cooperativa de Producción Agropecuaria), 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

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

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
 * 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