CFA may refer to:

Agreements

  • Canadian Football Act, a proposed 1974 law to give the Canadian Football League a government protected monopoly over professional football in Canada
  • Ceasefire, a temporary agreement to stop a war
  • Compact of Free Association, between the United States, Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, and Palau
  • Conditional fee agreement, a payment agreement also known as "no win no fee"

Medicine

  • Common femoral artery
  • Complete Freund's adjuvant, an immunopotentiator
  • Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis, an archaic term for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Organizations

  • California Faculty Association, a union for the California State University system
  • Campaign for Accountability, a US ethics watchdog group
  • Canadian Forestry Association
  • Canadian Fraternal Association
  • Carinthian Farmers' Association, a political party in Austria
  • Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts
  • Cat Fanciers' Association, a registry of pedigreed cats
  • Catfish Farmers of America, a party to the Catfish Dispute
  • China Futures Association, a financial regulation group
  • Consumer Federation of America
  • Consumers' Federation of Australia
  • Campus Freethought Alliance, formerly the Center for Inquiry On Campus, a skeptics' group
  • CFA Institute, an organization for finance professionals
  • Code for America, a nonprofit civic technology organization
  • Country Fire Authority, in Victoria, Australia

Sports

  • Championnat de France Amateur, a French football competition
  • Championnat de France Amateur (1935–1971), a French former football competition
  • Chinese Football Association
  • College Football Association, a defunct group which negotiated American football TV contracts
  • County football association, governing bodies for local football in England
  • Cyprus Football Association
  • City Football Academy, part of Etihad Campus and the training base for Manchester footballers in England

Science and technology

  • Color filter array, part of an image sensor
  • CompactFlash Association, a mass storage device trade group
  • Confirmatory factor analysis, a statistical method
  • Continuous flight augering, a drilling method
  • Continuous flow analysis, a technique used in some automated analyzers
  • Control flow analysis, in computer science
  • Crossed field antenna, a type of antenna for long and medium wave broadcasting
  • Crossed-field amplifier, a specialized vacuum tube used as a microwave amplifier
  • Current-feedback operational amplifier
  • Component failure analysis
  • The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  • .cfa, the file extension for Adobe Premiere Pro computer audio files
  • Cfa, one of two symbols for the humid subtropical climate, under the Köppen climate classification

Transport

  • Compagnie Française d'Aviation, a defunct French aircraft manufacturer
  • National Company for Rail Transport or Chemins de fer Algériens, the former national railway of Algeria
  • Chemins de Fer Armoricains, a former railway in Brittany, France
  • ICAO airline code for China Flying Dragon Aviation

Arts and entertainment

  • Canadian Film Awards
  • United States Commission of Fine Arts

Other uses

  • CFA franc, either of two currencies used in two separate groups of African countries
  • Chartered Financial Analyst, an investment professional designation
  • Chick-fil-A, an American fast food chain
  • Call for abstracts, an invitation to submit presentation proposals to an academic conference
  • Cape Field Artillery, a regiment of the South African Army
  • Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal, or HKCFA, or CFA, the final appellate court of Hong Kong