What does CPA stand for?
CPA has four common expansions: cost per acquisition in advertising, Certified Public Accountant in US accounting, Continuous Payment Authority in UK banking, and Care Programme Approach in NHS mental-health services. Your context, not the acronym, decides which applies.
marketingCost per acquisition (or cost per action)Ad metric: total spend divided by conversions. If you arrived from Ads Manager, a dashboard or an agency report, this is yours. Context tells: dollars, campaigns, conversions, bids.accountingCertified Public AccountantUS state-licensed accounting credential. Audit signatures, IRS representation, tax and financial reporting. Context tells: taxes, audit, licensure, hiring an accountant.UK bankingContinuous Payment AuthorityPermission a company holds to charge your debit or credit card on a recurring basis. Common behind subscriptions and gym memberships. Context tells: bank statement, recurring charge, cancelling a payment.NHSCare Programme ApproachFormer NHS England framework for coordinating specialist mental-health care. Being replaced since 2021 by the Community Mental Health Framework. Context tells: care plan, care coordinator, mental-health services.
Why one page
Search engines hedge on this term
Results for the bare acronym mix all four senses, and none of the incumbents serves more than one. This site keeps each sense on its own honest page instead of making you pick from a results list. The marketing lane starts at the calculator home; the accountant lane at what is a CPA. The two remaining senses each get a single page, sourced to the FCA and NHS England respectively, with no pretence that this is a banking or health site.