IFA or Ifa may refer to:
Organisations
Economics
*
Independent financial adviser, a type of financial services professional in the UK
*
Index Fund Advisors
Index Fund Advisors (IFA) is a registered investment advisor (RIA) headquartered in Irvine, California, with representatives in several locations across the United States. The company was founded on March 5, 1999 by Mark T. Hebner, former preside ...
*
Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, representing actuaries in the UK
*
Institute of Actuaries, in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
*
Faculty of Actuaries, in Scotland
*
Institute of Financial Accountants
The Institute of Financial Accountants (IFA) is a professional accountacy body representing and providing certification for financial accountants in the United Kingdom. The IFA is a full member of the International Federation of Accountants.
H ...
, representing accountants in the UK
*
International Fiscal Association
The International Fiscal Association (IFA) was established in 1938 as the only non-governmental and non-sectoral international organisation dealing with fiscal matters. Its headquarters are in the Netherlands. The objects of IFA are the study and a ...
*
International Forfaiting Association
In trade finance, forfaiting is a service providing medium-term financial support for export/import of capital goods. The third party providing the support is termed the forfaiter. The forfaiter provides medium-term finance to, and will commonl ...
Sports
*
Indian Football Association, West Bengal, India
*
Indoor Football Alliance
Supreme Indoor Football (SIF) is an inactive professional indoor football league based in the Southeastern United States.
The SIF was originally the creation of the Cape Fear Heroes ownership. During the league's initial launch in 2015, it was ...
*
Intercollegiate Fencing Association
*
Intercollegiate Football Association
The Intercollegiate Football Association (IFA), also known as the American Intercollegiate Football Association, was one of the earliest college football rules-making and scheduling organizations in existence; it was active from the 1873 to 1893 ...
, college football organization, 1873–1893
*
International Fistball Association
*
Iraq Football Association
*
Irish Football Association, in Northern Ireland
*
Islamabad Football Association
The Islamabad Football Association (IFA) is the regional governing body of :association football and futsal in Islamabad, Pakistan. Its headquarters are located in Jinnah Sports Stadium. IFA is responsible for the organization and governance ...
*
Israel Football Association
Other organizations
*
Illinois Family Action, the lobbying arm of the Illinois Family Institute in the US
*
India Foundation for the Arts, a philanthropic organization
*
Indo-GDR Friendship Association Indo-GDR Friendship Association was an organisation based in India, working for strengthening relations between India and the German Democratic Republic. It appears to have been supported or led by members of the then ruling Congress party in India, ...
, in India
*
Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau, East German vehicle manufacturer
*
Institute for Archaeologists, in the UK
*
Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii group that maintains the Mauna Kea Observatory
*
Institute for Astronomy (Edinburgh)
*
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance, a German research institute near Bonn
*
International Federation on Ageing
*
International Fertilizer Industry Association, represents the global fertilizer industry
*
International of Anarchist Federations, L'international des Federations Anarchistes
*
Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin, a consumer electronics trade fair
*
Irish Farmers' Association
*
New York University Institute of Fine Arts
The Institute of Fine Arts (IFA) of New York University is dedicated to graduate teaching and advanced research in the history of art, archaeology and the conservation and technology of works of art. It offers Master of Arts and Doctor of Philoso ...
, a graduate school of New York University
Other uses
*
Ifá
Ifá is a Yoruba religion and system of divination. Its literary corpus is the ''Odu Ifá''. Orunmila is identified as the Grand Priest, as he revealed divinity and prophecy to the world. Babalawos or Iyanifas use either the divining chain kno ...
, a system of divination that originated in West Africa
*
Inter-Island Ferry Authority The Inter-Island Ferry Authority (IFA) is a ferry service in the U.S. state of Alaska with its headquarters in Hollis, Alaska on Prince of Wales Island.
History
The Inter-Island Ferry Authority was created in 1997 by the Prince of Wales Island com ...
, a ferry service in Alaska
*
Interconnexion France-Angleterre
The HVDC Cross-Channel (french: Interconnexion France Angleterre IFA 2000) is the 73 km long high-voltage direct current (HVDC) interconnector that operates since 1986 under the English Channel between the continental European grid at Bonningues- ...
, the
HVDC Cross-Channel interconnector
An interconnector (also known as a DC tie in the USA) is a structure which enables high voltage DC electricity to flow between electrical grids. An electrical interconnector allows electricity to flow between separate AC networks, or to link sy ...
for the transfer of electricity between France and England
*
Interest Flooding Attack An Interest Flooding Attack (IFA) is a denial-of-service attack
In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by t ...
, a denial-of-service attack
*
Interferometer
Interferometry is a technique which uses the ''interference'' of superimposed waves to extract information. Interferometry typically uses electromagnetic waves and is an important investigative technique in the fields of astronomy, fiber op ...
, a device to measure the interference pattern caused by differing waves
*
Indirect Fluorescent Antibody
Immunofluorescence is a technique used for light microscopy with a fluorescence microscope and is used primarily on microbiological samples. This technique uses the specificity of antibodies to their antigen to target fluorescent dyes to specifi ...
, test
* Incomplete
Freund's adjuvant, an antigen solution to boost the immune system
* In-Flight Abort, test in spaceflight industry
See also
*
Aífe
(Old Irish), spelled () in Modern Irish, is a character from the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. She appears in the sagas '' Tochmarc Emire'' ("the wooing of Emer") and '' Aided Óenfhir Aífe'' ("the death of Aífe's only son"). In ''Tochmarc ...
, a character in Irish mythology
*
Aoife
Aoife ( , ) is an Irish feminine given name. The name is probably derived from the Irish Gaelic ''aoibh'', which means "beauty" or "radiance".
It has been compared to the Gaulish name ''Esvios'' (Latinized ''Esuvius'', feminine ''Esuvia''), which ...
, an Irish given name
*
Ivar F. Andresen
Ivar Frithiof Andresen (27 July 1896 – 6 November 1940) was a Norwegian opera singer who pursued a successful international career in Europe and the United States.
Andresen was the first Norwegian to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New Yo ...
(1896–1940), Norwegian opera singer
{{disambiguation
