 Hello, in this presentation, we will discuss the discussion question of why are debits on the left and credits on the right? Could this be reversed? This essay question could just be phrased, what are debits and credits? And in describing this answer to what are debits and credits, we may want to get into the detail or it would help for us to get into the detail of what does it mean for a debit to be on the left and a credit on the right? Why is this the case? How did this come to be? Could it be reversed? Is there another way that this kind of thing could work? And in order to answer that question, first we probably want to start with the definition of what debits and credits are. And again, it's a bit of a definition that many people are kind of like disappointed in when they first hear the definition or almost don't believe the simplicity of the definition, meaning the debits are just on the left and the credits are just something on the right, meaning if we have a t-account, we have a t-account and a giant t-