=+EX 6-9 Multiple-step income statement obj. 2 Chapter 6 Accounting for Merchandising Businesses 293 Construct a chart of accounts, assigning account numbers and arranging the accounts in balance sheet and income statement order, as illustrated in Exhibit 6. Each account number is three digits: the first digit is to indicate the major classification (“1” for assets, and so on); the second digit is to indicate the subclassification (“11” for current assets, and so on); and the third digit is to identify the specific account (“110” for Cash, and so on).