CMA may stand for:

Accounting

Certified Management Accountant Certified Management Accountant (CMA) is a professional certification credential in the management accounting and financial management fields. The certification signifies that the person possesses knowledge in the areas of financial planning, ana ...

* Chartered market analyst, designation of the

American Academy of Financial Management The American Academy of Financial Management (AAFM) was a US-based board of standards, certifying body, and accreditation council focused on the finance sector and wealth management professionals.. AAFM was superseded by the Global Academy of Fi ...

* Comparative market analysis, in real estate *

Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka The Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka, (CMA Sri Lanka) is a professional body offering qualification in management accountancy in Sri Lanka. It mainly focuses of development and promoting the study of Management Accoun ...

or CMA Sri Lanka

Associations

California Medical Association The California Medical Association (CMA) is a professional organization based in California that advocates on behalf of nearly 50,000 physicians in legislative, legal, regulatory, economic, and social issues. The organization was founded in 1856 ...

, US *

Canadian Malayalee Association The Canadian Malayalee Association (CMA) is a secular, non-political, non-partisan, and an incorporated non-profit organization (Reg. No:1701711) of Malayalees in Canada. All people of Kerala ethnic origin, living anywhere in Canada are eligible ...

Canadian Medical Association The Canadian Medical Association (CMA; french: Association médicale canadienne, AMC) is a national, voluntary association of physicians and medical learners that advocates on national health matters. Its primary mandate is to drive positive ch ...

Canadian Motorcycle Association The Canadian Motorcycle Association (CMA; french: Association Canadienne des Motocycles, ACM) was founded in 1946. In 1950, it became affiliated with the World Governing Body of the Federation Internationale de Motocyclisme. Federally incorporated ...

Canadian Museums Association The Canadian Museums Association (CMA; french: Association des musées canadiens, ''ACM''), is a national non-profit organization for the promotion of museums in Canada. It represents Canadian museum professionals both within Canada and internat ...

Catholic Medical Association The Catholic Medical Association (CMA) is an organization of Catholic physicians, dentists, and health care professionals in the United States and Canada. it had about 900 members. Until 1997, it was known as the National Federation of Catholic ...

Chess'n Math Association The Chess'n Math Association (or Chess and Math Association) is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing chess into Canadian schools. Founded in 1985 by Larry Bevand, who still serves as its executive director, it bills itself as "Canada's ...

* Chinese Musicians' Association *

Chinese Muslim Association The Chinese Muslim Association (CMA) is an organization of Chinese Muslims in the Republic of China (Taiwan). A rival group, the Chinese Muslim Youth League competes with it in Taiwan. History In Mainland China The Chinese Muslim Associati ...

, a religious organization in Taiwan * Christian Ministers' Association *

Christian and Missionary Alliance The Alliance World Fellowship is the international governing body of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (The Alliance, also C&MA and CMA). The Alliance is an evangelical Protestant denomination within the Higher Life movement of Christianity ...

* Christian Motorcyclists Association *

Community Media Association The Community Media Association (CMA) is the UK membership association for community broadcasting. Founded in 1983 as the Community Radio Association, the name of the organisation was changed in 1997 to the Community Media Association (CMA) to re ...

* Constitutional Monarchy Association, a formation of the

International Monarchist League The International Monarchist League (known until the mid-1990s as the Monarchist League) is an organisation dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the monarchical system of government and the principle of monarchy worldwide. It has been ...

Country Music Association The Country Music Association (CMA) was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee. It originally consisted of 233 members and was the first trade organization formed to promote a music genre. The objectives of the organization are to guide and enha ...

Council of Magickal Arts The Council of Magickal Arts, Inc. (CMA) is a Modern Paganism, Neo-pagan organization in Texas, and runs one of the USA's largest bi-annual Neo-pagan festivals in the Southern United States.Provided by CMA registration, 2012 History Founded in 1 ...

Crystal Meth Anonymous Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) is a California-based non-profit, public-benefit corporation founded in 1994. The members of the fellowship of Crystal Meth Anonymous work a twelve-step program of recovery with recovering crystal meth addicts. Partici ...

Cumberland Miners' Association The Cumberland Miners' Association was a trade union in the United Kingdom. The union was founded in 1872 as the West Cumberland Miners' Association, with its aims being the establishment of an eight-hour day, and improved safety. In 1906, it rem ...

Colleges and schools

Camden Military Academy Camden Military Academy (CMA) is a private, all-male, military boarding school located in Camden, South Carolina, United States. The State of South Carolina has recognized the institution as the official state military academy of South Carolina. ...

, South Carolina, US *

Columbia Military Academy The campus of Columbia Military Academy was built as an arsenal for the US Army in 1891 and closed after the Spanish–American War. The arsenal was declared surplus property in 1901 and in 1904 the land was formally turned over to the Columbia M ...

, Tennessee, US *

California State University Maritime Academy The California State University Maritime Academy (Cal Maritime or CSU Maritime Academy) is a public university in Vallejo, California. It is one of 23 campuses in the California State University system and the only maritime academy on the United ...

, Vallejo, California, US

Government

* Capital Market Authority (disambiguation): regulatory bodies in various countries *

Catchment Management Authority (disambiguation) Catchment Management Authority may refer to: * Catchment Management Authority (New South Wales) * Catchment Management Authority (Victoria) The Catchment Management Authorities (CMAs) were established in Victoria under the ''Catchment and Land ...

, Australia *

Census metropolitan area The census geographic units of Canada are the census subdivisions defined and used by Canada's federal government statistics bureau Statistics Canada to conduct the country's quinquennial census. These areas exist solely for the purposes of sta ...

, a Canadian census area *

Chennai Metropolitan Area The Greater Chennai Metropolitan Area, or simply the Chennai Metropolitan Area (CMA), is the third-most populous metropolitan area in India, the 22nd-most in Asia, and the 40th-most in the world. The CMA consists of the core city of Chennai, wh ...

, India *

China Meteorological Administration The China Meteorological Administration (CMA) is the national weather service of the People's Republic of China. The institution is located in Beijing. History The agency was originally established in December 1949 as the Central Military Commi ...

Common Monetary Area The Common Monetary Area (CMA) links South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho and Eswatini into a monetary union. It is allied to the Southern African Customs Union (SACU). The main purpose of this trade is that all of the parties can have the same developm ...

Competition and Markets Authority The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is the competition regulator in United Kingdom. It is a non-ministerial government department in the United Kingdom, responsible for strengthening business competition and preventing and reducing anti-com ...

, a regulatory body in the United Kingdom *

Computer Misuse Act 1990 The Computer Misuse Act 1990 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, introduced partly in response to the decision in ''R v Gold & Schifreen'' (1988) 1 AC 1063 (see below). Critics of the bill complained that it was introduced hastily ...

* Council for Multicultural Australia, former name of the

Australian Multicultural Council The Australian Multicultural Council (AMC), formerly Council for Multicultural Australia (CMA), is a body appointed by the Minister for Home Affairs (Australia), Minister for Home Affairs to advise the Australian Government on Australian multicu ...

Science

Biology

Chaperone-mediated autophagy Chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) refers to the chaperone-dependent selection of soluble cytosolic proteins that are then targeted to lysosomes and directly translocated across the lysosome membrane for degradation. The unique features of this type ...

Chemistry

Calcium magnesium acetate Calcium magnesium acetate (CMA) is a deicer and can be used as an alternative to road salt. It is approximately as corrosive as normal tap water, and in varying concentrations can be effective in stopping road ice from forming down to around (its ...

, an inorganic compound * Chloromethamphetamine *

Complex metallic alloys Complex metallic alloys (CMAs) or complex intermetallics (CIMs) are intermetallic compounds characterized by the following structural features: #large unit cells, comprising some tens up to thousands of atoms, #the presence of well-defined atom cl ...

Other science

Canis Major Canis Major is a constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere, southern celestial hemisphere. In the second century, it was included in Ptolemy's 48 constellations, and is counted among the 88 modern constellations. Its name is Latin fo ...

, astronomical constellation abbreviation "CMa" *

CMA (AAMA) A medical assistant, also known as a "clinical assistant" or healthcare assistant in the USA is an allied health professional who supports the work of physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and other health professionals, usuall ...

, a certified medical assistant in the US * Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (

CMA-ES Covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (CMA-ES) is a particular kind of strategy for numerical optimization. Evolution strategies (ES) are stochastic, derivative-free methods for numerical optimization of non-linear or non-convex continuo ...

) *

Critical medical anthropology Critical medical anthropology (CMA) is a branch of medical anthropology that blends critical theory and ground-level ethnographic approaches in the consideration of the political economy of health, and the effect of social inequality on people's he ...

Transportation

* Central Mountain Air, an airline based in Smithers, British Columbia, Canada * '' Compagnie des Messageries Aériennes'', a French airline * Compañía Mexicana de Aviación, a Mexican airline *

Cunnamulla Airport Cunnamulla Airport is an airport in Cunnamulla, Queensland, Australia. The airport is west northwest from the town. Airlines and destinations Services are operated under contract to the Government of Queensland. Previously operated by Skytra ...

(IATA airport code CMA), Queensland, Australia *

Camarillo Airport Camarillo Airport is a public airport located three miles (5 km) west of the central business district of Camarillo, a city in Ventura County, California, United States. The airport has one runway and serves privately operated general avi ...

(FAA lid code CMA), California, USA * CMA CGM * Compact Modular Architecture platform, a modular car platform developed by Geely * Congestion management agency, a type of county-level agency in California

Other uses

* Calculated Match Average, motorcycle speedway handicap *

, medical assistant credential *

Clearwater Marine Aquarium Clearwater Marine Aquarium is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, and aquarium in Clearwater, Florida. It is dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and release of sick and injured marine animals, public education, conservation, and research. C ...

* Cleveland Museum of Art * Country Music Association Awards (CMA Awards or CMAs) * Cumbria, ceremonial county in England * ''Ćma'', 1980 Polish film, '' The Moth'' in English * Koho language (ISO 639 language code cma)