CFA

CFA may refer to:

• CFA franc, a currency used by fourteen African countries
• Chartered Financial Analyst, an international investment professional designation
• Chick-fil-A, US restaurant chain

Agreements

• Canadian Football Act
• Ceasefire agreement
• Compact of Free Association, agreement between US, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, and Palau
• Conditional fee agreement, a legal agreement also known as "no win no fee"

Organizations

• California Faculty Association, the union representing employees at California State University system
• Call For Action, telephone help-lines of radio stations in the United States
• Campaign for Accountability, a non-profit organization in the United States
• Consumer Federation of America, consumer group
• Consumers' Federation of Australia, consumer advocacy group
• Campus Freethought Alliance, former name for Center for Inquiry On Campus, a skeptics' group
• CFA Institute, formerly known as the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR)
• Canadian Forestry Association
• Canadian Fraternal Association
• Carinthian Farmers' Association, a political party in Austria
• Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts, a college of Carnegie Mellon University
• Cat Fanciers' Association, the world's largest registry of pedigreed cats
• Catfish Farmers of America; see Catfish Dispute
• Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, an American astronomy research and education institution
• Country Fire Authority, a career and volunteer fire service in Victoria, Australia

Sports

• Championnat de France Amateur, a French football competition
• College Football Association, a defunct group through which colleges negotiated American football TV contracts with networks
• County Football Association, governing bodies for local football in England
• Cyprus Football Association, the governing body of football in Cyprus
• Chinese Football Association, the governing body of football in China
• City Football Academy, part of Etihad Campus that is the training base for Manchester footballers in England

Science and technology

• Color filter array, a mosaic of tiny color filters placed over an image sensor to capture color information
• CompactFlash Association, a mass storage device format used in portable electronic devices
• Complete Freund's adjuvant, an immunopotentiator composed of inactivated and dried mycobacteria
• Confirmatory factor analysis, statistical method used to explain variability among observed random variables
• Continuous flight augering, a drilling method for concrete pilings
• Continuous flow analysis, an automated analyzer using a special flow technique
• Control flow analysis, in computer science
• Crossed field antenna, a type of antenna for long and mediumwave broadcasting
• Crossed-field amplifier, a specialized vacuum tube used as a microwave amplifier
• Current-feedback operational amplifier, a type of operational amplifier
• Component failure analysis, to determine the cause of a failure
• Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis, an archaic term for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
• .cfa, the file extension for an Adobe Premiere Pro computer audio file
• Cfa, one of two symbols for the humid subtropical climate under the Köppen climate classification

Transportation

• 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

• California Film Awards, an independent film awards ceremony
• Canadian Film Awards
• United States Commission of Fine Arts, an advisory agency of the United States Government

Other uses

• Call for abstracts, a method used in academic contexts to encourage researchers to submit abstracts for conferences
• Cape Field Artillery, an artillery regiment of the South African Army
• Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong, the highest court of Hong Kong
• College for America, a competency-based learning program administered by Southern New Hampshire University
• Come from Away, a 2015 expression in Newfoundland English, usually expressed as an acronym
• Civitates Foederatae Americae, Latin for United States of America