CPA

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CPA may refer to:

Certified Public Accountant, a statutory title of qualified accountants in the United States
Certified Practising Accountant, a title used by members of the CPA Australia accountancy association
Chartered Professional Accountant, a title of qualified accountants in British Columbia, Quebec, Ontario, and soon all of Canada as the Chartered Accountants (CA), Certified Management Accountants (CMA), and Certified General Accountants (CGA) merge
Chartered Patent Attorney or Chartered Patent Agent, registered trademarks of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys in the UK
Closest point of approach, used in Automatic Radar Plotting Aid
Cyproterone acetate, an antiandrogen
Chosen-plaintext attack, a form of cryptanalysis
Código Postal Argentino, Postal codes in Argentina
Continuous Partial Attention, a term coined by Linda Stone in 1998 to describe a kind of multitasking
CPA (agriculture), a type of agricultural cooperative in Cuba
Cathay Pacific's ICAO airline designator
Certified Public Assassins, a team featured on Extreme Dodgeball
Classification of Products by Activity, a European standard classification of goods and services

Health care related

Care programme approach, a United Kingdom system of delivering community services to those with mental illness
Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis

Co-citation Proximity Analysis, an algorithm for document similarity computation
Collaboration Protocol Agreement, a component of the ebXML standards
Commercial Product Assurance, a form of information security validation

Canadian Payments Association
Canadian Payroll Association
Canadian Police Association
Canadian Poolplayers Association, an amateur pool (pocket billiards) league, affiliated with the American Poolplayers Association
Canadian Psychological Association
Chinese Progressive Association, Boston, Massachusetts NGO established in 1977
Commission on Preservation and Access, USA
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, an international association of national and subnational parliamentarians within the Commonwealth of Nations
Composite Panels Association
Cordillera Peoples Alliance, an indigenous rights organization in the Philippines
Craft Potters’ Association, a UK body of ceramicists
Cyprus Ports Authority

Christian Peoples Alliance, a British Christian democrat political party
Coalition Provisional Authority, which oversaw the American- and British-led multinational occupation of Iraq
Communist Party of America, established 1919, forerunner of Communist Party, USA
Communist Party of Australia
Community Preservation Act, Massachusetts
Comprehensive Peace Accord, a 2006 Nepali agreement
Comprehensive Peace Agreement, a 2005 agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War
Comprehensive Performance Assessment, a UK Audit Commission assessment
Comprehensive Plan of Action program, a 1989 plan to stop the influx of Indochinese boat people

Cost per acquisition, another name for cost per conversion, the cost of acquiring a customer
Cost per action, a valuation of internet advertisement
Cost per Activity
Critical path analysis, or critical path method (CPM), an algorithm for scheduling a set of project activities

Cerebellopontine angle, a structure at the margin of the cerebellum and pons
Chirped pulse amplification, a technique for amplifying an ultrashort laser pulse
Coherent perfect absorber, a device which absorbs coherent light and converts it to some form of internal energy such as heat or electrical energy
Coherent potential approximation, a method, in physics, of finding the Green's function of an effective medium
Cyclophosphamide
Cyclopropane fatty acid, a component of some rare fats