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I'm wanting to carry out the calculation of 8 - 11 (assuming that 5 bits represents a number and also using 2s complement representation), however, I can't seem to get the correct answer. This is what I have so far;

8 in binary is 01000. 11 in binary is 01101, which we invert to get -11: 10010 and then add one => 10011.

Adding these together (8 + -11) I thought resulted in 11100, however, when converting this back to decimal I can see that this isn't the (final) answer. Does anyone know where I'm going wrong?

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You representation of $11$ is wrong (you actually compute with $-13$), here the steps to get $8-11 = -3$

 8 = 01000 -11 = inv(01011)+1 = 10100+1 = 10101 01000 + 10101 = 11101

Now compute $-3$ and see that results match:

 -3 = inv(00011)+1 = 11100+1 = 11101
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