CVA

The abbreviation CVA can refer to:

Schools

• Carrabassett Valley Academy, a ski and snowboard academy based in Carrabassett Valley, Maine
• College of Visual Arts, a four-year private college in Minnesota
• Conservatorium van Amsterdam (CvA), a conservatory of music in the Netherlands
• Contextual value added, CVA is a statistic used by the government of the United Kingdom to assess the performance of schools
• Cyber Village Academy, a charter school in Saint Paul, Minnesota

Medicine

• Cerebrovascular accident, also known as a stroke
• Cough-variant asthma, a form of asthma in which the main symptom is a chronic cough
• Costovertebral angle, the acute angle formed between the twelfth rib and the vertebral column

Veterinary

• Certified Veterinary Assistant

Military

• CVA, the United States Navy's hull classification symbol for attack aircraft carriers (CV being the symbol for "aircraft carrier," and A for "attack"); e.g., USS United States (CVA-58)
• CVA-01, a class of British aircraft carriers planned for the post–World War II era but ultimately cancelled
• Cape Town Volunteer Artillery, the original name of the Cape Field Artillery regiment of South Africa

Financial

• Collateral Valuation Adjustment, a concept in debt restructuring
• Credit Value Adjustment, a credit component of FAS 157 Fair Valuation
• Credit Valuation Adjustment, the market value of counterparty credit risk
• Certified Valuation Analyst, a specialist in business valuation standards certified by the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts(NACVA) and The International Association of Consultants, Valuators and Analysts(IACVA)
• Company voluntary arrangement, for companies in insolvency

Other

• CVA (album), an album by the hardcore band Paint It Black
• Christian Vegetarian Association, an organization that promotes Christian vegetarianism
• Corpus vasorum antiquorum, an international research project documenting ancient ceramic pottery collections
• Conservation Volunteers Australia, an Australian organization to provide better environment
• cis-vaccenyl acetate, an insect pheromone