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
 * 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

Computing

 * Chosen-ciphertext attack, attack model for crypanalysis 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
 * 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

 * 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
 * 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