# 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
* Chinese Calligraphers Association, a professional organization of Chinese calligraphers

## 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
* 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