CPA (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 General 2 Politics and government 3 Organizations 4 Science and technology (not organizations) 4.1 Physics 4.2 Computing 4.3 Other 5 Other

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

[edit] 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.

[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 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Science and technology (not organizations)

[edit] Physics

• Coherent Potential Approximation
• Chirped pulse amplification

[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
• Content Provider Access - a set of services that gives content providers access to the SMSC-based infrastructure of some telecommunication networks

[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.
• 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.

[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 airline designator for Cathay Pacific Airways