CPA

• Certified Public Accountant
  Certified Public Accountant
  Certified 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...
  
  
• Certified Practising Accountant
  Certified Practising Accountant
  Certified 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 National Institute of...
  
  

Organizations

• Canadian Payments Association
  Canadian payments association
  The Canadian Payments Association is a not-for profit association created in 1980 by an act of parliament, the Canadian Payments Act, to "establish and operate national systems for the clearing and settlement of payments and other arrangements for the making or exchange of payments" within Canada....
  
  
• Canadian Payroll Association
• Canadian Police Association
  Canadian Police Association
  The 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’ Association
  Craft Potters’ Association
  The 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 Authority
  Cyprus Ports Authority
  The 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...
  
  

Politics and government

• Christian Peoples Alliance
  Christian Peoples Alliance
  The Christian Peoples Alliance is a Christian democrat political party in the United Kingdom. Founded in its present form during the late 20th century, it grew out of a cross-party interest group known as the Movement for Christian Democracy. The party operates all over Great Britain and has...
  
  , a British Christian democrat political party
• Coalition Provisional Authority
  Coalition Provisional Authority
  The Coalition Provisional Authority was established as a transitional government following the invasion of Iraq by the United States, United Kingdom and the other members of the Multinational force in 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 Australia
  Communist Party of Australia
  The Communist Party of Australia was founded in 1920 and dissolved in 1991. It achieved its greatest political strength in the 1940s and faced an attempted banning in 1951...
  
  
• Comprehensive Peace Accord
  Comprehensive Peace Accord
  The 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 Agreement
  Comprehensive Peace Agreement
  The 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. The Naivasha Agreement was meant to end the Second Sudanese Civil War, develop...
  
  , a 2005 agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War
• Comprehensive Performance Assessment
  Comprehensive Performance Assessment
  In 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 Action
  Comprehensive Plan of Action
  The 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

• Chirped pulse amplification
  Chirped pulse amplification
  Chirped pulse amplification or optical parametric chirped 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...
  
  
• Coherent Potential Approximation
  Coherent Potential Approximation
  The 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....
  
  
• Critical path analysis

Other uses

• 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 approach
  Care programme approach
  Care 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 Pacific
  Cathay Pacific
  Cathay Pacific Airways Limited is the flag carrier of Hong Kong, with its headquarters and main hub at Hong Kong International Airport. The airline also operates fifth freedom flights from Bangkok and Taipei, its major focus cities...
  
  's ICAO airline designator
• Certified Public Assassins, a team featured on Extreme Dodgeball
  Extreme Dodgeball
  Extreme Dodgeball was an American Sports Entertainment television show that debuted on Game Show Network in 2004. It is also featured on the British television channel Challenge.-Standard rules:...
  
  
• Chosen plaintext attack, a form of cryptanalysis
• Collaboration Protocol Agreement, a component of the ebXML
  EbXML
  Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language, commonly known as e-business XML, or ebXML as it is typically referred to as, 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 Administrator
  Comprehensive Patient Administrator
  Comprehensive 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...
  
  
• Continuous Partial Attention
  Continuous Partial Attention
  The term Continuous Partial Attention was coined by Linda Stone in 1998. Author Steven Berlin Johnson describes this as a kind of multitasking: “It usually involves skimming the surface of the incoming data, picking out the relevant details, and moving on to the next stream. You’re paying...
  
  
• Cost Per Action
  Cost Per Action
  Cost 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