Assets – liabilities equal to______?
In this case, Assets – Liabilities = Owner’s Equity.
The reason the formula is usually written as Assets = Liabilities + Owner’s Equity is to understand how to properly increase or decrease by debits or credits. For the left side of the equation, Assets are increased by debits, and decreased by credits. For the right side of the equation, Liabilities and Owner’s Equity are increased by credits, and decreased by debits.