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AbstractUsing a large panel of industrial Compustat firms from 1971 to 1988, we find long‐term external financing to be positively related to the period's capital expenditures on growth opportunities, but negatively related to beginning‐of‐the‐period financial slack, broadly defined. These findings support the view that firms tend to match long‐term sources of financing with long‐lived assets, and short‐term debt with short‐lived assets. Our results also reinforce the belief that firms prefer internal to external financing. We find no evidence that firms favor financing capital expenditures with short‐term debt, either permanently or temporarily.