CPA may refer to:

Organizations

Political parties and governmental organizations

Christian Peoples Alliance The Christian Peoples Alliance (CPA) is a Christian rightist political party in the United Kingdom. The party was founded in its present form in 1999, having grown out of a cross-party advocacy group called the Movement for Christian Democracy. T ...

, a political party in the UK *

Coalition Provisional Authority ) , capital = Baghdad , largest_city = capital , common_languages = Arabic Kurdish English (''de facto'') , government_type = Transitional government , legislature = Iraqi Governing Council , title_leader = Administrator , leader1 = ...

, a transitional government of Iraq 2003–04 *

Commonwealth Parliamentary Association The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), previously known as the Empire Parliamentary Association, is an organisation which works to support good governance, democracy and human rights. In 1989 the patron of the CPA was the Head of ...

* Communist Party of America, forerunner of

Communist Party USA The Communist Party USA, officially the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), is a communist party in the United States which was established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revo ...

Communist Party of Arakan The Communist Party of Arakan (CPA), also known as the Arakanese Communist Party (ACP), was a communist party and armed insurgent group active in Arakan, Burma (present-day Rakhine State, Myanmar). It was founded in 1962 after a faction under t ...

, in Burma *

Communist Party of Australia The Communist Party of Australia (CPA), known as the Australian Communist Party (ACP) from 1944 to 1951, was an Australian political party founded in 1920. The party existed until roughly 1991, with its membership and influence having been ...

, 1920–1991 **

Communist Party of Australia (1971) The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) is a communist party in Australia. It was founded in 1971 as the Socialist Party of Australia (SPA) and adopted its current name in 1996. The party was established by former members of the original Com ...

Comprehensive Peace Accord The Comprehensive Peace Accord ( ne, विस्तृत शान्ति सम्झौता; abbreviated CPA) was signed on 21 November 2006 between the Government of Nepal and the Unified Communist Party of Nepal. Highlights of the pea ...

, a 2006 agreement in Nepal *

Comprehensive Peace Agreement The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA, ar, اتفاقية السلام الشامل, Ittifāqiyyah al-salām al-šāmil), also known as the Naivasha Agreement, was an accord signed on January 9, 2005, by the Sudan People's Liberation Moveme ...

, a 2005 agreement in Sudan *

Comprehensive Performance Assessment In the United Kingdom, the Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA), conducted by the Audit Commission, assessed the performance of every local authority Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of public administration within ...

, a UK Audit Commission assessment *

Comprehensive Plan of Action The Comprehensive Plan of Action (CPA) is a program adopted in June 1989 at a conference in Geneva held by The Steering Committee of the International Conference on Indo-Chinese Refugees. It was designed to deter and to stop the continuing influx ...

, a 1989 plan to stop the influx of Indochinese boat people *

Congress Party Alliance The Congress Party Alliance (CPA; ) is a political party in Taiwan. The party was established on 18 October 2018 during its inaugural meeting in Taipei City. The Central Party Department is located in the Zhongzheng District of Taipei City. The CP ...

, a political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan) *

Council of Presidential Advisers The powers of the president of Singapore are divided into those which the president may exercise at their own discretion, and those they must exercise in accordance with the advice of the Cabinet of Singapore or of a minister acting under the gener ...

, in Singapore *

Cyprus Ports Authority The Cyprus Ports Authority (CPA, el, Αρχή Λιμένων Κύπρου) is a semi-autonomous government agency that is responsible for the supervision and oversight of the ports and port facilities of Cyprus. Established by the Cyprus Ports A ...

Other organizations

CPA Australia CPA Australia ("Certified Practising Accountant") is a professional accounting body in Australia founded in 1886. As of 31 December 2020, it has 168,736 members working in 150 countries and regions around the world. CPA Australia currently has ...

, a professional accounting body *

Canadian Payments Association Canadian Payments Association, carrying on business under the brand name Payments Canada, is an organization that operates a payment clearing and settlement system in Canada. The Canadian Payments Association was established by the ''Canadian Pay ...

Canadian Payroll Association The National Payroll Institute, formerly the Canadian Payroll Association (CPA), represents Canadian employers' payroll interests. Canada's 1.5 million employers annually pay $929 billion in wages and taxable benefits, $310 billion in federal a ...

Canadian Police Association The Canadian Police Association (CPA) is an advocacy and fundraising organization that is also a registered lobbyist with the Canadian government. The CPA represents Canadian police officers. It is divided into 27 regional chapters at municipal, ...

Canadian Poolplayers Association The American Poolplayers Association (APA) is a governing body for amateur pool (pocket billiards) competition in the United States. The APA conducts pool leagues and tournaments in the disciplines of eight-ball and nine-ball with a unified ru ...

Canadian Psychological Association The Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) is the primary organization representing psychologists throughout Canada. It was organized in 1939 and incorporated under the Canada Corporations Act, Part II, in May 1950. Its objectives are to imp ...

Chinese Progressive Association (Boston) The Chinese Progressive Association (CPA) is an American non-governmental organization founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1977. The CPA is an agency that helps Chinese immigrants assimilate into American culture through citizen classes, English cla ...

, in the US *

College Park Academy College Park Academy (commonly CPA) is a college preparatory charter school middle and high school located in Riverdale Park, Maryland, United States. The school is a joint collaboration project with the University of Maryland, College Park. This ...

, in Riverdale Park, Maryland, US *

Commission on Preservation and Access The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is an American independent, nonprofit organization. It works with libraries, cultural institutions, and higher learning communities on developing strategies to improve research, teaching, an ...

, now Council on Library and Information Resources, in the US *

Consumer Protection Association The Consumer Protection Association (CPA; my, စားသုံးသူကာကွယ်ရေးအသင်း) is Myanmar's independent food consumer protection Consumer protection is the practice of safeguarding buyers of goods and ser ...

, in Myanmar *

CPA (agriculture) A CPA (''Cooperativa de Producción Agropecuaria''), or Agricultural Production Cooperative, is a type of agricultural cooperative that exists in Cuba today. History of CPAs Cuban agriculture consists of state and private farms, both of which are ...

(''Cooperativa de Producción Agropecuaria''), a type of agricultural cooperative in Cuba *

Craft Potters Association The Craft Potters Association (CPA) is an association of potters formed in 1958 in London. It has two wholly owned operating companies: Craftsmen Potters Trading Company Ltd and Ceramic Review Publishing Ltd. It owns a shop and gallery, the Con ...

, in the UK *

Catholic Patriotic Association The Catholic Patriotic Association (), abbreviated CPA, is a state-sanctioned organization of Catholicism in the People's Republic of China. It was established in 1957 after a group of Chinese Catholics met in Beijing with officials from the Ch ...

, a Catholic organization in China * ''Cyclistes Professionnels Associés'', at Maison du Sport International in Lausanne, Switzerland

Project management and cost analysis

Cost per action Cost per action (CPA), also sometimes misconstrued in marketing environments as cost per acquisition, is an online advertising measurement and pricing model referring to a specified action, for example, a sale, click, or form submit (e.g., contac ...

, an online advertising measurement and pricing model *

Cost per activity When a mobile consumer requests content in the form of, for example, e-vouchers, audio files or video clips, the advertiser is charged a nominal sum by the platform that supports the marketing campaign. Each request is defined as an "activity". ...

, an internat marketing cost policy * Critical path analysis, an algorithm for scheduling a set of project activities

Qualifications

Chartered Patent Attorney The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) is the British professional body of patent attorneys. History The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) was founded in 1882 as the ''Chartered Institute of Patent Agents'' and incorpor ...

, in the UK *

Certified Practising Accountant Certification is the provision by an independent body of written assurance (a certificate) that the product, service or system in question meets specific requirements. It is the formal attestation or confirmation of certain characteristics of a ...

, in Australia *

Chartered Professional Accountant Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA; french: comptable professionnel agréé) is the professional designation which united the three Canadian accounting designations that previously existed: :* Chartered Accountant ( CA), :* Certified Gener ...

, in Canada *

Certified Public Accountant Certified Public Accountant (CPA) is the title of qualified accountants in numerous countries in the English-speaking world. It is generally equivalent to the title of chartered accountant in other English-speaking countries. In the United Sta ...

, in the US

Science and technology

Medicine and health care

Care Programme Approach Care Programme Approach (CPA) in the United Kingdom is a system of delivering community mental health services to individuals diagnosed with a mental illness. It was introduced in England in 1991 and by 1996 become a key component of the mental ...

, a British system of delivering community mental health services *

Cerebellopontine angle The cerebellopontine angle (CPA) ( la, angulus cerebellopontinus) is located between the cerebellum and the pons. The cerebellopontine angle is the site of the cerebellopontine angle cistern one of the subarachnoid cisterns that contains cerebro ...

, in the brain * Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis, a long-term fungal infection *

Collaborative practice agreement A collaborative practice agreement (CPA) is a legal document in the United States that establishes a legal relationship between clinical pharmacists and collaborating physicians that allows for pharmacists to participate in collaborative drug t ...

, a legal document between pharmacists and physicians in the US * ''N''⁶-Cyclopentyladenosine, a drug *

Cyproterone acetate Cyproterone acetate (CPA), sold alone under the brand name Androcur or with ethinylestradiol under the brand names Diane or Diane-35 among others, is an antiandrogen and progestin medication used in the treatment of androgen-dependent conditi ...

, a medication

Information technology

Chosen-plaintext attack A chosen-plaintext attack (CPA) is an attack model for cryptanalysis which presumes that the attacker can obtain the ciphertexts for arbitrary plaintexts.Ross Anderson, ''Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems''. ...

, an attack model for cryptanalysis *

Co-citation Proximity Analysis Co-citation Proximity Analysis or CPA is a document similarity measure that uses citation analysis to assess semantic similarity between documents at both the global document level as well as at individual section-level.Bela Gipp and Joeran Be ...

, a document similarity measure * Collaboration Protocol Agreement, a component of the

ebXML Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language, commonly known as e-business XML, or ebXML (pronounced ee-bee-ex-em-el, 'bi,eks,em'el as it is typically referred to, is a family of XML based standards sponsored by OASIS and UN/CEFACT whose ...

standards *

Commercial Product Assurance Commercial Product Assurance (CPA) is a CESG approach to gaining confidence in the security of commercial products. It is intended to supplant other approaches such as Common Criteria The Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Eval ...

, a form of information security validation

Other uses in science and technology

Chirped pulse amplification Chirped pulse amplification (CPA) is a technique for amplifying an ultrashort laser pulse up to the petawatt level, with the laser pulse being stretched out temporally and spectrally, then amplified, and then compressed again. The stretching and ...

, a technique for amplifying an ultrashort laser pulse * Closest point of approach, measured by

marine radar Marine radars are X band or S band radars on ships, used to detect other ships and land obstacles, to provide bearing and distance for collision avoidance and navigation at sea. They are electronic navigation instruments that use a rotating a ...

Coherent perfect absorber A coherent perfect absorber (CPA), or anti-laser, is a device which absorbs coherent light and converts it to some form of internal energy such as heat or electrical energy. It is the time-reversed counterpart of a laser. The concept was first publ ...

, a device which absorbs coherent light *

Coherent potential approximation The coherent potential approximation (or CPA) is a method, in physics, of finding the Green's function of an effective medium. It is a useful concept in understanding how sound waves scatter in a material which displays spatial inhomogeneity. One v ...

, a method in physics of finding Green's function *

Chiral phosphoric acid In organic chemistry, chiral phosphoric acids are esters of phosphoric acid that have chiral backbones. Well known examples include cyclic diesters derived from the BINOL and TADDOL motifs. These compounds are used in asymmetric cataly ...

, esters of phosphoric acid *

Cyclopropane fatty acid Cyclopropane fatty acids (CPA) are a subgroup of fatty acids that contain a cyclopropane group. Although they are usually rare, the seed oil from lychee contains nearly 40% CPAs in the form of triglycerides. Biosynthesis CPAs are derived from un ...

, a subgroup of fatty acids *

CPA superfamily The cation:proton antiporter (CPA) superfamily is a superfamily of transport proteins named after one of its constituent members, the monovalent cation:proton antiporter-2 (CPA2). CPA1 was considered a member of the superfamily until 2010, when ...

, of transport proteins

Other uses

Cathay Pacific Cathay Pacific Airways Limited (CPA), more widely known as Cathay Pacific (), is the flag carrier of Hong Kong, with its head office and main hub located at Hong Kong International Airport. The airline's operations and subsidiaries have sc ...

, ICAO airline code CPA * Certified Public Assassins, a team featured on ''

Extreme Dodgeball ''Extreme Dodgeball'' is an American game show based on the game of dodgeball that aired between 2004 and 2005 on the Game Show Network. The series ran for three seasons, each of which featured six to eight teams of five to seven players. The f ...

'' *

Classification of Products by Activity Product classification or product taxonomy is a type of economic taxonomy which organizes products for a variety of purposes. However, not only products can be referred to in a standardized way but also sales practices in form of the “Incoterms� ...

, a European standard classification of goods and services * ''Código Postal Argentino'',

postal codes in Argentina Postal codes in Argentina are called '. Until 1998 Argentina employed a four-digit postal code for each municipality, with the first digit representing a region in the country, except in the case of the city of Buenos Aires (which had different ...

* Community Postal Agent, of

Australia Post Australia Post, formally the Australian Postal Corporation, is the government business enterprise that provides postal services in Australia. The head office of Australia Post is located in Bourke Street, Melbourne, which also serves as a post ...

Community Preservation Act The Community Preservation Act (CPA) is a Massachusetts state law (M.G.L. Chapter 44B) passed in 2000. It enables adopting communities to raise funds to create a local dedicated fund for open space preservation, preservation of historic resources, d ...

, a state law in Massachusetts, US *

Continuous partial attention Linda Stone Linda Stone (born 1955) is a writer and consultant who coined the phrase "continuous partial attention" in 1998. Stone also coined "email apnea" in 2008 which means "a temporary absence or suspension of breathing, or shallow breathin ...

, a term coined by Linda Stone in 1998 to describe a kind of multitasking *

Continuous payment authority A continuous payment authority (CPA) is a type of regular automatic payment where an individual gives a vendor permission to take money from a credit or debit account whenever the vendor feels money is owed. They are often used by payday lenders, p ...

, a type of regular automatic payment {{disambiguation