CPA (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 General 2 Politics and government 3 Organizations 4 Science and technology (not organizations) 4.1 Computing 4.2 Other 5 Other

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

[edit] General

• In the United States and many other countries, Certified Public Accountants, who are accounting professionals
• A member of the Australian Accounting body CPA Australia, Certified Practising Accountants who are also professional Accountants
• In the United Kingdom, Chartered Patent Attorneys, sometimes referred to equivalently as Chartered Patent Agents
• "Critical Path Analysis" which is more generally known as Critical Path Method, a operations research concept.
• The 'Certified Public Assasins', a team featured on Extreme Dodgeball

[edit] 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 implemented in order to improve the humanitarian crisis 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

[edit] Organizations

• the Canadian Philosophical Association
• the Canadian Psychological Association

[edit] Science and technology (not organizations)

[edit] 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

[edit] Other

• Cyproterone Acetate - an antiandrogen drug
• chirped pulse amplification (laser)
• 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.

[edit] 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 designator for Cathay Pacific