CCA may refer to:

Arts and culture

  • Canadian Centre for Architecture, museum and research centre in Montreal, Quebec
  • Canadian Comedy Awards, annual awards show
  • CCA, a London-based talent agency founded by Howard Pays and Freddy Vale
  • Capitol Center for the Arts, performing arts theater complex in Concord, New Hampshire
  • Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu, art museum in Japan
  • Centre for Contemporary Arts, arts centre in Glasgow, Scotland
  • Centre for Curating the Archive, curation studio at the University of Cape Town, South Africa
  • Chinese Calligraphers Association, a professional organization of Chinese calligraphers

Computing

  • Chosen-ciphertext attack, attack model for cryptanalysis where the cryptanalyst can gather information by obtaining the decryptions of chosen ciphertexts
  • Cisco Clean Access, former name of Cisco NAC Appliance, a defunct network admission control system
  • Common Component Architecture, standard for component-based software engineering
  • Connected-component analysis, algorithmic application of graph theory
  • Continuous configuration automation, methodology or process of automating the deployment and configuration of settings and software

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Economics and finance

  • Canadian Council on Africa, nonprofit dedicated to Africa's economic development
  • Capital Cost Allowance, means by which Canadian businesses may claim depreciation expense when filing taxes
  • Chartered Certified Accountant (designatory letters ACCA or FCCA)
  • Chartered Cost Accountant, cost accounting or cost control professional designation under the American Academy of Financial Management
  • Client commission agreement, soft dollar arrangement that allows money managers to separately pay executing brokers for trade execution and ask that broker to allocate a portion of the commission directly to an independent research provider
  • Capital Consumption Allowance, business term referring to the portion of gross domestic product which is due to depreciation

Education

  • City College of Angeles, a public local college in Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines
  • California Charter Academy, defunct charter school operator in California
  • California College of the Arts, private art school in San Francisco
  • California Culinary Academy, defunct for-profit school affiliated with Le Cordon Bleu in San Francisco
  • Canyon Crest Academy, public high school in San Diego, California
  • Cape Cod Academy, independent college preparatory school in Massachusetts
  • Chandigarh College of Architecture, architecture school in India
  • Coláiste Chraobh Abhann, community secondary school in County Wicklow, Ireland
  • Commonwealth Charter Academy
  • Community College of Aurora, community college in Colorado
  • Cornish College of the Arts, private art college in Seattle, Washington
  • Clacton Coastal Academy, public secondary school in Essex, England
  • Co-curricular activity (Singapore), non-academic activities students are required to take as part of their education

Government, politics, and military

  • Central Computer Agency, a former British government agency
  • Climate Change Agreement, British scheme to make energy and carbon savings through energy efficiency while still maintaining competitiveness by reducing energy costs in certain industrial sectors
  • Climate Change Authority, Australian governmental agency on climate change policy
  • Collaborative combat aircraft, American program for unmanned combat air vehicles
  • Combat Command-A, a combined-arms military organization of the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1963
  • Combatant Clergy Association, political group<!--not a party--> in Iran
  • Communist Committees for Self-Management (Comités communistes pour l'autogestion), a far-left French organization 1977–1982
  • Council for Cultural Affairs, now the Ministry of Culture in Taiwan

Law

  • Child Citizenship Act of 2000, American federal law regarding acquisition of citizenship by children of US citizens
  • Civil Contingencies Act 2004, British act of Parliament that makes provision about civil contingencies
  • Clinger–Cohen Act, two laws passed together in the United States in 1996
  • Communist Control Act of 1954, American law outlawing the Communist Party and criminalizing membership or support
  • Competition and Consumer Act 2010, Australian Act of Parliament promoting competition, fair trading as well as providing protection for consumers
  • Consumer Credit Act 1974, British act of Parliament reforming consumer credit law
  • Court of Criminal Appeal (disambiguation)

Medicine and health

  • Children's Craniofacial Association, American nonprofit to support individuals and families with facial disfigurements
  • Cholangiocarcinoma, a type of cancer that forms in the bile ducts
  • Common carotid artery, arteries supplying oxygenated blood to the head and neck
  • Congenital contractural arachnodactyly, an autosomal dominant congenital connective tissue disorder

Religion

  • Catholic Campaign for America, defunct Roman Catholic activist organization
  • Christian Coalition of America, nonprofit Christian advocacy group
  • Christian Conference of Asia, regional ecumenical organisation in Asia, Oceania and Australia
  • Cornerstone Christian Academy (disambiguation)
  • Covenant Christian Academy (disambiguation)

Science and technology

  • Canonical correlation analysis, a way of inferring information from cross-covariance matrices
  • Canonical correspondence analysis, a variation of correspondence analysis
  • CCA, a codon for the amino acid proline
  • Chromated copper arsenate, wood preservative
  • Circuit card assembly, ICP preferred term for an assembled circuit board
  • Climate change adaptation, process of adjusting to the effects of climate change
  • Cold cranking amperes, a measurement on a vehicle battery
  • Combinatorial clock auction, combination of a clock auction with a subsequent sealed bid auction
  • Computer Corporation of America, a former computer software company
  • Compositionally Complex Alloys, or Complex Concentrated Alloys, baseless alloys, e.g., like a High-entropy alloy
  • Confirmatory composite analysis, sub-type of structural equation modeling
  • Copper-clad aluminium wire, dual-metal electrical conductor composed of an inner aluminum core and outer copper cladding
  • Council of Canadian Academies, nonprofit in Ontario that performs independent, expert assessments of science relevant to public issues
  • Currency Creek Arboretum, abortorium and research center in South Australia

Sports

  • Canadian Canoe Association, governing body of competitive canoeing and kayaking
  • Canadian Cricket Association, now Cricket Canada, governing body of competitive cricket
  • Canadian Curling Association, now Curling Canada, sanctioning body for competitive curling
  • Canadian Cycling Association, now Cycling Canada, governing body of competitive cycle racing
  • Chinese Chess Association, governing body of competitive chess
  • Cruising Club of America, international organization promoting cruising and racing and its development

Transportation

  • CCA, the ICAO callsign for Air China
  • Central Connect Airlines, a former airline based in the Czech Republic

Unions and professional associations

  • Canadian Cattlemen's Association, an advocacy group for the Canadian beef industry
  • Certified Crop Advisor, professional designation under the American Society of Agronomy
  • China Cotton Association, nonprofit specializing in cotton
  • Comics Code Authority, American organisation that oversaw ethics and standards for comics publishing
  • Conference of Consulting Actuaries, professional society of actuaries in the USA and Canada
  • Corporate Council on Africa, nonprofit trade association focused on strengthening commercial relationships between the USA and Africa
  • Critics Choice Association, American association for television, radio and online critics

Other uses

  • Canadian Cat Association, nonprofit dedicated to cat welfare
  • Canadian Cascade Arc, the Canadian segment of the North American Cascade Volcanic Arc
  • Club Corporation of Asia, Hong Kong-based company and leaseholder for Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire, England
  • Coastal Conservation Association, American nonprofit social movement organization of salt water anglers
  • Coca-Cola Amatil, a bottler of beverages in the Asia-Pacific region
  • Community Choice Aggregation, American nonprofit public agencies that offer an alternative to investor-owned utilities systems
  • Community Conservation Areas, community conserved territories and areas governed with evidently positive outcomes for the conservation of biological and cultural diversity
  • Compañía Colombiana Automotriz, a former car factory in Colombia
  • Concerned Children's Advertisers, former name of Companies Committed to Kids, a defunct Canadian non-profit organization
  • Container Corporation of America, American company that manufactured corregated boxes
  • Corrections Corporation of America, now CoreCivic, company that owns and manages private prisons and detention centers

See also

  • Circa (disambiguation)