CPA may refer to:

Organizations

Politics and government

Christian Peoples Alliance The Christian Peoples Alliance (CPA) is a minor Christian right 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 Democrac ...

, a political party in the UK *

Coalition Provisional Authority The Coalition Provisional Authority (; , CPA) was a Provisional government, transitional government of Iraq established following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, invasion of the country on 19 March 2003 by Multi-National Force – Iraq, U.S.-led Co ...

, a transitional government of Iraq 2003–04 * Coalition for a Prosperous America, a US manufacturing industry lobbying group *

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 ...

* Communist Party of America, forerunner of

Communist Party USA The Communist Party USA (CPUSA), officially the Communist Party of the United States of America, also referred to as the American Communist Party mainly during the 20th century, is a communist party in the United States. It was established ...

* Communist Party of Arakan, 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 communist 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 ...

* Comprehensive Peace Accord, a 2006 agreement in Nepal *

Comprehensive Peace Agreement The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA, ), also known as the Naivasha Agreement, was an accord signed on 9 January 2005, by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and the Government of Sudan. The CPA was meant to end the Second Sudane ...

, a 2005 agreement in Sudan * Comprehensive Performance Assessment, a UK Audit Commission assessment *

Comprehensive Plan of Action {{Distinguish, Joint 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 of the Unit ...

, 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 CPA Australia ("Certified Practising Accountant") is a professional accounting body in Australia, originally founded as the "Incorporated Institute of Accountants" in 1886. As of 31 December 2020, it has 168,736 members in 150 countries and regio ...

, a professional accounting body *

CPA Canada Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada) () is the national organization representing the Canadian accounting profession through the unification of the three largest accounting organizations: the Canadian Institute of Chartered ...

, 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 P ...

Canadian Payroll Association The National Payroll Institute is a professional association representing payroll workers in Canada. The Institute was formed in 1978 as the Canadian Payroll Association, and rebranded in 2022. The Institute offers two certification programs for ...

* Canadian Police Association * Canadian Poolplayers Association *

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 ...

Catholic Patriotic Association The Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA) is the national organization for 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 Chinese Commun ...

, a Catholic organization in China *

Centre de perfectionnement aux affaires HEC Paris () is a business school and ''grande école'' located in Jouy-en-Josas, a southwestern outer suburb of Paris, France. It offers Bachelor, MiM, MSc in International Finance, MBA, EMBA, executive education, professional developme ...

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 c ...

, in the US *

College Park Academy College Park Academy (commonly CPA) is a college preparatory public charter school middle and high school located in the Discovery District of the University of Maryland, United States. The school was created by the city of College Park and the ...

, 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; ) is Myanmar's independent food consumer protection Consumer protection is the practice of safeguarding buyers of goods and services, and the public, against unfair practices in the marketplace. Consum ...

, in Myanmar *

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

(), 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

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 The critical path method (CPM), or critical path analysis (CPA), is an algorithm for scheduling a set of project activities. A critical path is determined by identifying the longest stretch of dependent activities and measuring the time requi ...

, an algorithm for scheduling a set of project activities

Qualifications

* Chartered Patent Attorney, in the UK *

Certified Practising Accountant Certification is part of testing, inspection and certification and 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 attestatio ...

, in Australia *

Chartered Professional Accountant Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA; ) is the professional certification, professional designation which united the three Canadian accounting designations that previously existed: :* Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, Chartered Acc ...

, 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 Stat ...

, in the US

Science and technology

Medicine and health care

* Care Programme Approach, a British system of delivering community mental health services *

Cerebellopontine angle The cerebellopontine angle (CPA) () is located between the cerebellum and the pons. The cerebellopontine angle is the site of the cerebellopontine angle cistern. The cerebellopontine angle is also the site of a set of neurological disorders kno ...

, in the brain *

Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis is a long-term fungal infection caused by members of the genus ''Aspergillus''—most commonly ''Aspergillus'' ''fumigatus''. The term describes several disease presentations with considerable overlap, ranging fro ...

, 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 pharmacy, clinical pharmacists and collaborating physicians that allows for pharmacists to participate in co ...

, 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 Ethinylestradiol/cyproterone acetate, with ethinylestradiol under the brand names Diane or Diane-35 among others, is an antiandrogen and progestin medication used in the tre ...

, 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 (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 Beel, ...

, 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 hazards, 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 device which absorbs coherent light *

Coherent potential approximation The coherent potential approximation (CPA) is a method, in theoretical physics, of finding the averaged Green's function of an inhomogeneous (or disordered) system. The Green's function obtained via the CPA then describes an effective medium whose s ...

, a method in physics of finding Green's function * Chiral phosphoric acid, 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 u ...

, a subgroup of fatty acids * CPA superfamily, of transport proteins

Sports

* Canadian Pickleball Association, a pro sports tour *

Climate Pledge Arena Climate Pledge Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is located north of downtown Seattle in the entertainment complex known as the Seattle Center, the site of the 1962 World's Fair, for which it was ...

, a multi-purpose indoor arena in Seattle, Washington

Other uses

Cathay Pacific Cathay Pacific Airways Limited, or simply Cathay Pacific, is the flag carrier of Hong Kong, with its head office and main airline hub, hub located at Hong Kong International Airport. The airline's operations and its subsidiaries have schedule ...

, ICAO airline code CPA *

Centre for the Performing Arts, Adelaide The Adelaide College of the Arts, also known as AC Arts and formerly known as Adelaide Centre for the Arts, is a campus of TAFE SA that specialises in education for the performing arts, visual arts, and filmmaking. It is located on Light Square ...

, a former college in Adelaide, South Australia * 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, a European standard classification of goods and services * ,

postal codes in Argentina Postal codes in Argentina are called '. Argentina first implemented a four-digit postal code system in 1958, aiming to improve mail distribution efficiency. However, it wasn't until 1998 that the more detailed and comprehensive Código Postal Arge ...

* Community Postal Agent, of

Australia Post Australia Post, formally the Australian Postal Corporation and also known as AusPost, is an Australian Government-State-owned enterprise, owned corporation that provides postal services throughout Australia. Australia Post's head office is loca ...

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, 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, g ...

, a type of regular automatic payment