By Emily Chasan
NEW YORK, Oct 28 (Reuters) – Corporate balance sheets may be showing signs of the wear and tear from the prolonged U.S. recession as accounting irregularities are starting to surface at growing numbers at U.S. companies.”When things get difficult companies tend to stretch even further and utilize whatever games that they can get away with and sometimes they don’t get away with them,” David Tice, chief portfolio strategist for bear markets at Federated Investors, said in an interview with Reuters television on Wednesday.

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