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Liabilities don't come in the left hand side. We traditionally put liabilities "credits" on the right and "debits" on the left. This dates back to Pacioli's "Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita" where he outlines double entry (debit and credit) accounting.

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