CPA
Encyclopedia
CPA may refer to:
- Certified Public AccountantCertified Public AccountantCertified Public Accountant is the statutory title of qualified accountants in the United States who have passed the Uniform Certified Public Accountant Examination and have met additional state education and experience requirements for certification as a CPA...
, a statutory title of qualified accountants in the United States - Certified Practising AccountantCertified Practising AccountantCertified Practising Accountant is the title used by members of the CPA Australia accountancy association. Accountants practising in Australia have the choice of becoming members of CPA Australia , joining the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia or the Institute of Public Accountants...
, a title used by members of the CPA Australia accountancy association - Chartered Patent Attorney or Chartered Patent Agent, registered trademarks of the Chartered Institute of Patent AttorneysChartered Institute of Patent AttorneysThe Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys is the British professional body of patent attorneys. It was founded in 1882 as the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents and incorporated by Royal Charter in 1891...
in the UK
Organizations
- Canadian Payments AssociationCanadian payments associationThe Canadian Payments Association is a not-for-profit organization that:*operates and maintains national systems for the clearing and settlement of payments and other arrangements for the making or exchange of payments;...
- Canadian Payroll Association
- Canadian Police AssociationCanadian Police AssociationThe Canadian Police Association is an organization of Canadian police officers.In 2003, the original "Canadian Police Association" was merged with the National Association of Professional Police to form the Canadian Professional Police Association....
- Craft Potters’ AssociationCraft Potters’ AssociationThe Craft Potters Association was formed in 1958 to promote the work of its members and to increase public awareness of contemporary studio pottery...
, a UK body of ceramicists - Cyprus Ports AuthorityCyprus Ports AuthorityThe Cyprus Ports Authority is a semi-autonomous government agency that is responsible for the supervision and oversight of the ports and port facilities of the Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus...
- Canadian Poolplayers Association, an amateur pool (pocket billiards) league, affiliated with the American Poolplayers Association
- Cordillera Peoples Alliance, an indigenous rights organization in the Philippines
Politics and government
- Christian Peoples AllianceChristian Peoples AllianceThe Christian Peoples Alliance is a Christian democratic political party in the United Kingdom. Founded in its present form in 1999; it grew out of a cross-party advocacy group known as the Movement for Christian Democracy. The party is active throughout England and has fledgling groups specific...
, a British Christian democrat political party - Coalition Provisional AuthorityCoalition Provisional AuthorityThe Coalition Provisional Authority was established as a transitional government following the invasion of Iraq by the United States and its allies, members of the Multi-National Force – Iraq which was formed to oust the government of Saddam Hussein in 2003...
, which oversaw the American- and British-led multinational occupation of Iraq - Communist Party of AustraliaCommunist Party of AustraliaThe Communist Party of Australia was founded in 1920 and dissolved in 1991; it was succeeded by the Socialist Party of Australia, which then renamed itself, becoming the current Communist Party of Australia. The CPA achieved its greatest political strength in the 1940s and faced an attempted...
- Community Preservation ActCommunity Preservation ActThe Community Preservation Act is a Massachusetts state law passed in 2000. It enables adopting communities to raise funds to create a local dedicated fund for open space preservation, preservation of historic resources, development of affordable housing, and the acquisition and development of...
, Massachusetts - Comprehensive Peace AccordComprehensive Peace AccordThe Comprehensive Peace Accord was signed between the Government of Nepal and the Unified Communist Party of Nepal on November 21, 2006 which formally ended the Nepalese People's War that lasted for more than decade...
, a 2006 Nepali agreement - Comprehensive Peace AgreementComprehensive Peace AgreementThe Comprehensive Peace Agreement , also known as the Naivasha Agreement, was a set of agreements culminating in January 2005 that were signed between the Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan...
, a 2005 agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War - Comprehensive Performance AssessmentComprehensive Performance AssessmentIn the UK the Comprehensive Performance Assessment , conducted by the Audit Commission, assessed the performance of every local authority and the services that they provide for local people.The Audit Commission first introduced CPA in 2002...
, a UK Audit Commission assessment - Comprehensive Plan of ActionComprehensive Plan of ActionThe Comprehensive Plan of Action 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, which was designed to deter and to stop the continuing influx of Indochinese boat people and to cope with an...
program, a 1989 plan to stop the influx of Indochinese boat people
Science and technology
- Cerebellopontine angleCerebellopontine angleThe cerebellopontine angle is a structure at the margin of the cerebellum and pons.Breast cancer can metastasize to the cerebellopontine angle.It can be a site for lipoma.It is where acoustic neuromas are usually found.-External links:...
, a structure at the margin of the cerebellum and pons - CyclophosphamideCyclophosphamideCyclophosphamide , also known as cytophosphane, is a nitrogen mustard alkylating agent, from the oxazophorines group....
- Chirped pulse amplificationChirped pulse amplificationChirped pulse amplification is a technique for amplifying an ultrashort laser pulse up to the petawatt level with the laser pulse being stretched out temporally and spectrally prior to amplification...
, a technique for amplifying an ultrashort laser pulse - Coherent perfect absorberCoherent perfect absorberA Coherent perfect absorber , 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 published in the July 26, 2010, issue of Physical Review...
, a device which absorbs coherent light and converts it to some form of internal energy such as heat or electrical energy - Coherent potential approximationCoherent Potential ApproximationThe coherent potential approximation is a method, in physics, of finding the Green's function of an effective medium. It is a useful concept in understanding how waves scatter in a material which displays spatial inhomogeneity....
, a method, in physics, of finding the Green's function of an effective medium
Other uses
- Clinical Pathology Accreditation, operated by the United Kingdom Accreditation ServiceUnited Kingdom Accreditation ServiceThe United Kingdom Accreditation Service is the sole national accreditation body recognised by the British government to assess the competence of organisations that provide certification, testing, inspection and calibration services.It evaluates these conformity assessment bodies and then...
- CPA (agriculture)CPA (agriculture)A CPA , or Agricultural Production Cooperative, is a type of agricultural cooperative that exists in Cuba today.- History of CPAs :...
, a type of agricultural cooperative in Cuba - Care programme approachCare programme approachCare Programme Approach is a United Kingdom system of delivering community services to those with mental illness. It was introduced to England in 1991 and by 1996 become a key component of the mental health system in England...
, a United Kingdom system of delivering community services to those with mental illness - Cathay PacificCathay PacificCathay Pacific is the flag carrier of Hong Kong, with its head office and main hub located at Hong Kong International Airport, although the airline's registered office is on the 33rd floor of One Pacific Place...
's ICAO airline designator - Certified Public Assassins, a team featured on Extreme DodgeballExtreme DodgeballExtreme Dodgeball is an American Sports Entertainment television show that debuted on Game Show Network in 2004. It has also been shown in the UK on Challenge.-Standard rules:...
- Chosen-plaintext attackChosen-plaintext attackA chosen-plaintext attack is an attack model for cryptanalysis which presumes that the attacker has the capability to choose arbitrary plaintexts to be encrypted and obtain the corresponding ciphertexts. The goal of the attack is to gain some further information which reduces the security of the...
, a form of cryptanalysis - Commercial Product AssuranceCommercial Product AssuranceCommercial Product Assurance is an emergent UK Government Standard for computer security.It is intended to supplant other approaches such as Common Criteria and CCT Mark for UK government use....
, a form of information security validation - Collaboration Protocol Agreement, a component of the ebXMLEbXMLElectronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language, commonly known as e-business XML, or ebXML as it is typically referred to, is a family of XML based standards sponsored by OASIS and UN/CEFACT whose mission is to provide an open, XML-based infrastructure that enables the global use of...
standards - Comprehensive Patient AdministratorComprehensive Patient AdministratorComprehensive Patient Administrator is a collection of software tools to manage resources in medical environments . Primary data and individual file cards can be saved. Multimedia archives can save medical reports, x-rays and pictures. A dicom viewer is integrated...
, a collection of software tools to manage resources in medical environments - Continuous Partial AttentionContinuous Partial AttentionContinuous partial attention is the process of paying simultaneous attention to a number of sources of incoming information, but at a superficial level. The term was coined by Linda Stone in 1998...
, a term coined by Linda Stone in 1998to describe a kind of multitasking - Cost per actionCost Per ActionCost Per Action or CPA is an online advertising pricing model, where the advertiser pays for each specified action linked to the advertisement....
, a valuation of internet advertisement - Cost per acquisition, another name for cost per conversionCost per conversionCost per conversion is an advertising and marketing term, describing the cost of acquiring a customer, typically calculated by dividing the total cost of an advertising campaign by the number of conversions...
, the cost of acquiring a customer - Cyproterone acetate, an antiandrogen
- Closest point of approach, used in Automatic Radar Plotting AidAutomatic Radar Plotting AidA marine radar with automatic radar plotting aid capability can create tracks using radar contacts. The system can calculate the tracked object's course, speed and closest point of approach , thereby knowing if there is a danger of collision with the other ship or landmass.Development of ARPA...
- Critical path analysis, or critical path method, an algorithm for scheduling a set of project activities
- Cost per Activity
- Chronic Pulmonary AspergillosisChronic pulmonary aspergillosisAspergillosis is an infection caused by the fungus Aspergillus. Aspergillosis describes a large number of diseases involving both infection and growth of fungus as well as allergic responses...
- Postal codes in Argentina (Código Postal Argentino)