CCA

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

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

• 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
• 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 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)