How do you know you will actually have money in a couple weeks?

If you wouldn't have money in a couple of weeks, how does this make any difference?

Delaying bacruptcy can, and has, landed people in jail.

It may not to you, but your unpaid vendors would know to not wait on you hoping you'll pay up at the end & try to figure out a backup.

If I was providing services to a company I'd much prefer they tell me they're unable to pay ASAP then just delay as much as they can and then not pay at the end.

Doing so ruins a companies financial crediability, and it is opening thr door for your vendors to sue you for delaying bancruptcy. You can ask for drlayed payments as part of restructuring, unilaterally stopping payment is a sure way to disaster.

Just keep them in the loop so you don't end up with a nasty surprise of your own. I have dealt with this scenario from both sides, and suppliers are often pretty well situated to ride out a few missed payments. But by the nature of your situation, you are in no position to be shopping around for a new service should they cut you off for non-payment. Keep people on your side by being communicative as early as possible.

Either you default or you honor your credit and potentially rebalance credit. I your business was operated responsibly you shouldn’t be in a situation where you stop all payments to „sort out your business numbers“

Whether or not your business was operated responsibly does not affect your current best marginal decision. Assuming you want your business to survive, this may be to take the author's advice.

Ahem. You also cannot delay filing of insolvency because the law decides which marginal decision are allowed and which aren’t.

Yep. and 2 weeks delay in payment is not 'totally screwing' anybody :-)