New to the page, old to the game.

I have beat the game all the way through twice as the British (hey I saw that, I LIKE the Brits) once on easy and once on Expert, and once on hard as the Italians.

I'm now playing it on Expert as the Brittish again and I've come across an interesting situation. My income is EXPLODING. I have lots of provinces (all along the far West coast, the isles, spain, and all the Egyptian provinces) and my income is topping 11,000 flourins a year, which has NEVER happened before.

I guess my question is, I recently started paying attention to Accumen and which general I give the province to. I tend to never give a province to a general with less than 4 accumen, and save the exceptional ones for the richer provinces (Castile Constantinople etc). My income seems to have nearly trippled in this game and I can't spend my money fast enough. I'm building everything I can think of and still making mad cash....
can Accumen alone do that?

Thanks for the help
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